Chapter 693: The Black Token

"Dean Pang? Help?"

When Li Luo heard this transmission, he couldn't help but freeze for two seconds, then forced a bitter smile and said in a low voice, "Dean, you old man think too highly of me, don't you?"

Inside the dark cavern were three king-level experts in combat. With his small frame, even mixing into a fight between marquis-level experts was already extremely dangerous—how could he dare go to the king-level experts' side? He was truly afraid that those two Other Kings could kill him with just a single glare.

"You don't need to act yourself. I just need to borrow one thing from you." Dean Pang's voice, tinged with amusement, rang out again.

"Borrow something?"

Li Luo hesitated for a moment, then nodded brightly.

"You want to borrow my essence blood again? No problem."

"Heh, this time I don't need your essence blood. I can see you're quite drained now—if I keep borrowing, I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it." Dean Pang said teasingly.

Li Luo sighed wistfully. During the Prefecture Sacrifice some days ago, in order to squeeze out the last of the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf's power, he had paid the price of ten drops of essence blood, and even now he still felt a sense of emptiness. Clearly, Dean Pang had noticed this too.

"No essence blood, then what can I lend you?"

Then he grew a bit puzzled. At his tiny Fiend Palace realm, the only thing that should catch Dean Pang's eye was his essence blood containing the Li Li Tianwang bloodline. If not essence blood, then what?

"Of course it's something related to your Li Li Tianwang bloodline as well." Dean Pang said.

Hearing this, Li Luo's heart stirred at once. He swept his hand across his spatial orb, and the next moment, an ancient token appeared in his palm. On its face was engraved a "Li" character exuding a mysterious charm, and beneath the "Li" character was a blurred yet inexplicably oppressive dragon shadow.

"Is it this?"

On his person, apart from his own bloodline, the only thing still related to the "Li Li Tianwang bloodline" was this mysterious black token.

"Precisely this. I'll borrow it for a while and return it to its rightful owner." Dean Pang's voice rang out.

"Dean, are you alright?" Li Luo hesitated, then couldn't help asking, because from the current situation, Dean Pang was clearly employing some mutually-destructive method, and it seemed the price he had to pay would be enormous.

"I am the Dean of Saint Zhu Xuan Star Academy. Although I failed to protect the Resonance Force Tree, protecting the academy is my responsibility no matter what. If you want me to abandon this place and flee alone, then those Other beings really do underestimate me, Pang Pang Qianyuan."

"I will seal them all together, but this can only last a few years. A few years from now, the seal on the Dragon Bone Holy Grail will also fail, and then we'll see whether the Academy Alliance takes any action," Pang Pang Qianyuan said with a faint smile.

Then the black token in Li Luo's hand transformed into a streak of black light and flew out, piercing straight into the dark cavern.

Pang Pang Qianyuan, whose body was gradually ossifying, reached out to catch the black token. Feeling the supreme aura contained within, his eyes narrowed slightly as he muttered to himself, "The aura of a Li Tianwang—truly extraordinary."

His hands formed seals at lightning speed. The Three-Phase Power within him erupted, transforming into countless energy runes that surged into the black token. Instantly, the token seemed to receive some kind of activation, and a streak of golden light shot up into the sky from it. The golden light was not dazzling—merely emitting a faint glow—but the moment this golden light appeared, the Fish Chi King and Corpse Wang King opposite both lost their color.

"The aura of a Li Tianwang?!"

The two Other Kings' faces trembled. Even they felt an indescribable suppressive force from that aura. At this moment, they almost felt the same dread as when facing their leader, the "Eight-Headed Black Demon King."

"Pang Pang Qianyuan, you actually still have such a trump card!" A cold, vicious glint surfaced in the Fish Chi King's grayish-white fish pupils.

However, Pang Pang Qianyuan paid no heed. As the golden light rose and merged with the sealing light barrier emitted by the Dragon Bone Holy Grail, the white mist beneath the light barrier seemed to receive some kind of augmentation, and everything within it ossified faster and faster.

Even the Evil Thought Black River, whose waters had originally churned, was subjected to a suppression and began to settle down completely, no longer advancing.

On the bodies of the three king-level experts, white spots continuously spread outward, with more and more areas ossifying.

"Pang Pang Qianyuan, you're merely doing useless work. Even if you borrow the augmentation of a Li Tianwang's aura to seal us and the Evil Thought Black River, this can only last a few short years. A few years from now, the seal will shatter, and everything will proceed as before."

"Moreover, the Resonance Force Tree is already destroyed. Even if you seal the Evil Thought Black River, the Evil Thought aura will still spread out endlessly. Pang Pang Qianyuan, both Saint Zhu Xuan Star Academy and Daxia are beyond saving!" the Fish Chi King said coldly.

Facing the Fish Chi King's words, Pang Pang Qianyuan remained unmoved. He gazed at the ossification spots rapidly spreading across his body and said calmly, "What happens a few years from now—who can say for certain? Perhaps when I open my eyes again, reinforcements will have arrived."

"Naive. The Academy Alliance has enough troubles of its own—no time to come to this Outer Shenzhou." The Fish Chi King sneered.

Pang Pang Qianyuan smiled. The ossification spots completely covered his body, turning him into a bone sculpture, standing silently in place.

The Fish Chi King and Corpse Wang King had not yet been completely sealed by ossification, but their eyes both appeared extremely furious and gloomy. Then their gazes met, and words inaudible to outsiders passed between them.

"Damn it—this damned Pang Pang Qianyuan actually willing to seal himself to obstruct us!"

"The Evil Thought Black River cannot spread, so our plan cannot be carried out."

"We need the Evil Thought Black River to help us find... that 'Primordial Seed.' This is the mission the leader gave us!"

"Perhaps we can only let the leader act."

"No. The leader said it must not act lightly, or information about the 'Primordial Seed' will be detected by other beings!"

"Then we can only wait. Pang Pang Qianyuan's seal can only last two or three years. And we have some 'allies' outside as well—they will help us..."

"..."

As the exchange ended, the bodies of the Fish Chi King and Corpse Wang King were also completely covered by grayish-white bone spots, finally transforming into two motionless bone sculptures.

The depths of the entire dark cavern fell silent once more.

Only the surging Evil Thought aura continued to whistle out endlessly.

In the academy, numerous gazes stared at the three ossified king-level experts, and for a moment fell into silence. However, many secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because those two Other Kings were too terrifying. If they had truly walked out of the dark cavern, probably no one present could have escaped.

But it was a pity that Dean Pang had also fallen into self-sealing.

"Dean..." Vice Dean Suxin gazed at this scene, a flash of pain crossing her eyes.

"Dean!"

Countless students also fell into grief, their eyes reddened. Although Pang Pang Qianyuan rarely appeared in the academy in recent years, he still held an unmatched place in the hearts of all students. After all, the feat of guarding the depths of the dark cavern single-handedly alone was enough to earn the admiration of many students.

Now that Pang Pang Qianyuan had fallen into sealing, the symbolic power of Saint Zhu Xuan Star Academy would also vanish along with him.

Leaders of other forces, such as Yu Yu Hongxi and Du Tuo Ze Yan, also wore solemn expressions. Pang Pang Qianyuan was, after all, the only king-level expert in Daxia, and his disappearance would cause no small impact on Daxia's landscape.

The only one present who was overjoyed by this outcome was probably the Regent King. His gaze fixed dead on Pang Pang Qianyuan's bone sculpture in the dark cavern, his heart surging with emotion.

This mountain that had pressed down on the Daxia royal court had actually self-sealed itself today, just like that!

From now on, who else could stop him, Gong Yuan?

"Sigh, these two Other Kings don't seem to be very bright either." The gold-and-silver double-pupil man laughed helplessly, his words showing no respect for those two Other Kings.

"My lord, now that Pang Pang Qianyuan and the two Other Kings are sealed, you are the strongest one here." Shen Shen Jinxiao said with a smile.

The gold-and-silver double-pupil man was just about to speak when his expression suddenly shifted. Everyone saw a streak of black light shoot out from the dark cavern. Within the black light was a token—precisely the one Pang Pang Qianyuan had borrowed from Li Luo earlier.

The black token shot out, spun once in the void, and suddenly an extremely terrifying blade light whistled out from within it. The blade light contained Three-Phase Power, and everything in its path was ground to nothing by the blade light.

And the blade light was aimed—

Precisely at that gold-and-silver double-pupil man.

So the smile on the latter's face instantly stiffened at this moment.

"Pang Pang Qianyuan!" The gold-and-silver double-pupiled man's eyes blazed with fury as he let out a low snarl.

Clearly, even at the final moment of being sealed, Pang Pang Qianyuan had still held something in reserve—and that very ploy was aimed at the gold-and-silver double-pupiled man!

The gold-and-silver double-pupiled man dared not be careless; his figure shot backward as his hands simultaneously formed seals.

"Feng Hou Domain!"

He bellowed sharply, and a ring of mysterious domain, with himself as its source, suddenly burst outward—resembling a realm that shielded him within.

Yet this very Feng Hou Domain, which previously not even Vice Dean Su Xin and the others attacking with everything they had could shake in the slightest, now, as that blade-light descended, turned fragile as tofu.

Sssrk!

Everyone seemed to hear a faint, piercing sound ring out.

And then they saw the gold-and-silver double-pupiled man's body, at this very moment, slowly split apart from the crown of his head downward.